As a rule, religion serves mankind by reminding us that our world is greater than we sometimes make it. Helping us recognize the magic and beauty everywhere, spiritual traditions across the world and throughout time have sought to give us the tools to see through the veil that makes our lives seem smaller and more constricted than they should be. This smallness is so enthralling that breaking out is regularly referred to as ‘salvation’, or being saved.

Monotheism in general, and Christianity, in particular, is especially beautiful in its call to a very personal relationship with the Divine. While there is a vital Christian community around the world, simply being part of the club isn’t enough to get into to heaven! Each of us is called individually to make that choice that allows our salvation. The choice, of course, is whether we’ll say ‘Yes’ to the grace of the Christ, or not.

Sometimes we can find that saying ‘Yes’ isn’t as easy as we would like it to be. Habitual thought, speech, and behavior can hold us back from living as Jesus and his apostles taught. Neurotic compulsion and a poor understanding of what provides for true happiness keep many of us bound up in self defeat and separated from His love.

At the same time, many Christians hunger for a means of directly experiencing the Divine. The last several decades have seen a growing respect for this yearning throughout the Church, but there remains much room for growth in how it encourages us to pursue it.

Tantric Christianity, the upcoming book by Christopher Boozell, employs the spiritually and psychologically sophisticated techniques of Vajrayana Buddhism, expressed through the rich imagery and theology of Christianity to address this yearning for direct experience, as well as address those limitations that seem to hold us apart from God. This approach to Christian meditation gives us the tools to reform how we relate to ourselves, our world, and our God so that old limiting habits can naturally drop away, as well as providing the tools for the direct experience of God and his Love.

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